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Db2

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Db2 should allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only.

Db2 currently doesn't allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only, this port is left as open port and can be connected from other machines, unauthorized users can exploit this information to test vulnerabilities in the open service a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Decreasing CF memory is slow

While working with PureScale, there may be a need to create room for new DB in the system. Once this happens we need to reconfigure CF memory, while keeping system up and running. We are concerned regarding CF_MEM_SZ , CF_GBP_SZ and CF_DB_MEM_SZ, ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Enable registering SSL connection information for databases cataloged in LDAP.

For databases enabled with SSL connectivity, it would be useful to be able to register the protocol and certificate storage information in the LDAP catalogs as well. Currently the db2dsdriver.cfg supports including this information as part of a da...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

dmctop for ppcle

While exploring dmctop I did not find a version for power machine. So IBM engieneering requested me to submit a request for the same.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Future consideration

JCC driver to recognize STOP / START ACCELERATOR to avoid incorrout

JCC driver to recognize STOP / START ACCELERATOR to avoid incorrout: If JCC driver is connected to Db2 for z/OS and queries over this connection gets offloaded to the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA), the queries will return incorrout if STOP ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2

fencing agent handle promptly and avoid server reboot when it noticed minor lib changes at OS end

Dear IBM Thank you much for such great imitative on HA Auto failover feature on DB2 LUW. We have implemented PACEMAKER with fencing technology on huge number of DB2 servers. Following are the challenges which needs to be addressed and improve the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Table Partition creation auto extension Functionality

Today DB2 doesn’t provide the auto table partition extension Functionality. We would like to have the Functionality available, could you please let us know if this is feasible and if yes how soon it would be available. This is Functionality is ava...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Allow use of two factor authentication using smart cards for authentication for ODBC

Security requirements make us move to use two factor authentication when accessing Db2 for z/OS. We do have everything set up for the server side by using AT-TLS ServerWithClientAuth configuration for our Db2 for z/OS systems. We can also make Db2...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Provide SYSTEM / UNIQUE collation sequence support for column organized tables when codepage is 819

The lack of support for anything other than IDENTITY collation sequence for codepage 819 makes migration to BLU very difficult for customers who use it.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Improve HADR standby replay performance

a)HADR replay master contends with replay worker on queue, and lots of latch contention were observed.b)HADR replay has IO performance issue. Lots of random IOs were observed, and there should be some sort of prefetch IO to improve performance.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration